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For those registered U.S. voters, today is the day for mid-term elections. That means our media (mainstream, social, alternative, etc) is filled with all things politics. If you wade through it all, sifting through the piles of excrement, you might find a glimmer of truth somewhere. "Might" being the operative word. For those who dislike... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was a perfect example of if something can go wrong, it will. I was happily sitting at my desk, doing research on the current work in progress. In this day and age of the internet, that meant I was online, browsing maps, looking at building floor plans and checking the headlines for a certain... Continue Reading →
I 've touched on this before: to supplement my own experience, I make shameless use of relatives, friends, friends of friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. By now most of them are used to this and do not get (too) weirded out by questions such as: “If you were going to (non-fatally) shoot the pilot of a... Continue Reading →
Is there an Arabic speaker on the blog? That’s a serious question. You see, for the next book in the Pocketful of Stars series I’m positing a terrorist splinter group that has split off from Al-Shabaab and is based on one of the offshore islands of the Swahili coast. If necessary I can give it a... Continue Reading →
Years ago, Sarah somehow got me to admit I wrote stories. I'm still not sure how she managed it. It's a special talent of hers, something she's used on others besides me. Not only did she get me to admit I wrote stories and had for years, she managed to pry a chapter out of... Continue Reading →
This holiday I managed to find myself with one kid at home. Two of my daughters are up at college - one in her dorm, the other visiting - one is with her grandmothers, and my son is at home. He's blissfully pretending that he's an only kid for four days, and for the baby,... Continue Reading →
I've gotten into a bad habit on the weekends, namely: doing stuff. My husband has said I need to quit it, and sit home and relax. He's right, but that doesn't change the fact that I work five days a week, which leaves two to do things in. Like writing, although that's not usually what... Continue Reading →
It’s been a week. Mostly, I’ve been head-down in classes. This is mixed, as I am learning things, but it also means I’m not keeping up with my writing, or reading, or… anything. So I was sort of aware that there was some kerfluffle over Gaiman’s tweet that Clarion was the thing to do if... Continue Reading →
I'm writing this rather late, and I am afraid it may be short, as well. I'd apologize, but the projects at hand yesterday were lengthy and pressing. Besides, they gave me the idea for this post. Yesterday I spent from about 9 am to 5:30 pm at school. The last four hours of that was... Continue Reading →
For once a post that only marginally touches on the Hugo Awards. Break out the bubbly. I’m a long term fan of hard-sf. Now let’s start by establishing more-or-less what I think hard-sf is, because otherwise we could be talking right past each other. Hard-sf has the overwhelming bulk of the story grounded in science... Continue Reading →
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